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You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen.

What We’re Talking About
Before we charge too far ahead here, let’s run over the basics. Your house or apartment, or the coffee shop you’re sitting in now, is saturated with radio waves. Inconceivable numbers of them, in fact, vibrating forth from radio stations, TV stations, cellular towers, and the universe itself, into the space you inhabit. You’re being bombarded, constantly, with electromagnetic waves of all kind of frequencies, many of which have been encoded with specific information, whether it be a voice, a tone, or digital data. Hell, maybe even these very words.

On top of that, you’re surrounded by waves of your own creation. Inside your home are a dozen tiny little radio stations: your router, your cordless phone, your garage door opener. Anything you own that’s wireless, more or less. Friggin’ radio waves: they’re everywhere.

AMD cpu’s give more cores and hertz and more value as well as more upgrade-ability but perform less per hertz than Intel’s and run hotter. But on processes with a lot of integer core usage, AMD wins out.

Intel’s quads compete with AMD’s six cores. Their duals compete with AMD triple cores. Further, their memory allocation is better and thus anything with high extension usage (photoshop, rendering, etc) or anything that uses a large amount of data (ripping, converting) is better with Intel

AMD/ATI released the DX11 series graphics far before Nvidia. Their cards are cooler and slightly more expensive. They are releasing a new series starting in October that should retake the performance crown.

Nvidia is behind with DX11, but fermi (400 series), while much hotter, outperforms ATI at the same price points. The reason they are behind is GPGPU. GPGPU is using the gpu as a general processing core. You can compile C and Fortran code to run on a Fermi chip now. For the consumer this hasn’t made much difference, but it probably will in the future.

Future: Intel will go from Nehalem to Sandy Bridge. The core technology isn’t changing that much nor is the naming scheme. But it should run even cooler. However, they are updating their sockets again and you will have to buy a new mobo to use a new CPU. Also they continue to upgrade their atom line but an out of order processor doesn’t seem likely next year.\

If you spend a good part of your day using the computer, the 20-20-20 rule, that I recently learned recently from my doctor, might also help you relax your tired eyes.

The rule goes something like this.

The screen is bright and therefore, if you don’t blink your eyes as often as you should while working at the computer for long hours, you can have dry eyes sometimes even followed by redness.

To help you deal with this problem, the 20-20-20 rule suggest that after every 20 minutes, you (the computer user) should take a break for at least 20 seconds and look at objects that are 20 feet away from you.

Since it is nearly impossible for any computer users to remember that they have to take a break every 20 minutes, there are free software programs that can help you in your mission.

For instance, there’s a Windows utility called Eye Defender that sits in the system tray and, after a fixed interval, it will auto-run a visual training (see video below in full screen) for the eyes on your screen.

In accordance to the general availability of the Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft is now giving away “Operation guide for Microsoft Office 2010” digital e-book in PDF, DOC and XPS format. The “Operation guide for Microsoft Office 2010” e-book is aimed to anyone who has an interest to understand how to maintain and manage their installation…

Rob really is the most helpful, pleasant and completely proficient one around. He has helped us SO many times, including saving my daughter's new MAC when she spilled water in it when APPLE said she'd need a new laptop. Has offered to do a quick fix remotely when he's able and fixes everything. He really should charge us more for all he does.
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Always Awesome

Joyce Werner

Needed to get my wife's lap top fixed and was in a hurry. She needed it for work. I normally go to another shop and they were too busy. I was told about Rob by a friend. Called him and he had me bring it right in. He repaired it and had it back to me the next day, at a better price than the shop I had used in the past. He went through everything I needed to do to keep it up and running. The guy was GREAT. I will now take all my computers to him. Thanks again!!

FAST AND QUALITY SERVICE!!

kailua94@comcast.net

Don't bother trying Best Buy, Staples, etc..I've used them in the past, what a waste of time. It's hard to find a shop like Rob's..All our PCs have been in to see him at least once. One of my laptops he's given an extra 3 years of life!
Bitwise does repairs that the big box stores have to ship out for..unless you can do it yourself, don't go anywhere else.

The best

Jim Hoffman

Rob was patient and flexible listening to my issue and gave me several options of what he could to for me and what I could try myself. I ended up paying 1/5 of what I thought it would cost.

Saved me $$

Curtis

Rob is awesome!!! I made a serious mistake while rebuilding a computer (I damaged the motherboard) Although I knew everything he was talking about, he didn't speak down or above my head. It seems that he treats all his customers this way and that is excellent customer service!!! I highly recommend Rob because he is honest and straight forward. I wish there were more businesses like BitWise.

Rob is awesome!!!

Eric B

Thank you Rob! I am so glad I learned about BitWise! This is the first business I have had my computer repaired and it actually works!! Rob does a great job getting you up and running again. I have had him clean up one computer and it runs like brand new. Another computer caught a REALLY bad virus and all info was retrieved by Rob and he was able to clean up the hard drive and get it up and running. I also had a hard drive that was dropped at the airport and was broken. Rob was honest and let us know our options and his opinion. I'm so glad you opened your store. I have moved to Sacramento and I will still come to Folsom to have my computer serviced. Unless you can do it through your online remote service :-))

Thank you Rob!

Cheryl A.

My computer had a nasty virus. Rob fixed it right up, no issues and had it back faster than the Geek Squad ever could. Plus, he's a small one-man shop, so you know who is working on your computer. Not some high school or college kid who might try to steal personal information. There is only one point of contact and if you have any questions, you call Rob, not some phone tree at Geek Squad where you don't know WHO is working on your computer.
Plus, Rob copied a DVD for me for free. I was willing to pay, but he did it for free. Granted, I wouldn't expect him to copy 10 DVD's for free, but he did copy my wedding DVD.
Thanks Rob!

My computer had a nasty virus.

Patrick P.

I finally found a computer repair shop that is nice and friendly. Every where else I went the employees were rude and condascending. BitWise removed virus's from two of my computers and sold me a used laptop. The service was great the their prices were better than any other repair shops around. They also helped me setup a wireless home network for my computers and Playstation 3. My overall experience was great and I will definitely do business with them again. They also do remote support so I won't always need to bring my computers in there to be serviced!

I finally found a computer repair shop that is nice and friendly.

Susan C.

Anyone in the Folsom/Sacramento area that needs computer repair or consulting - CALL THIS GUY!
I had him set up my new computer and three screens and his not only arrived on-time he completed the job quickly and efficiently - and did not go over his estimated charge.
He will also set a "remote" to help you through any unforeseen difficulties.
I rate him 5-Stars - and an A+.
Give him a call - a competent, professional, and courteous professional!
Cheers, Gary

CALL THIS GUY!

Gary C

Took my daughter's laptop in and the keyboard replacement was reasonable, fast, and done well.
I've since recommended at least half a dozen people to BitWise and, while they don't seem to write reviews on Yelp, they all reported to me a very, very happy experience.
Sometimes they get swamped and can't get things done right away, some things cost more than others to fix, but BitWise gets the job done right the first time.

BitWise rocks!

David R.

Rob Barrie and BitWise are the best. I came home to find my computer unresponsive ... I couldn't turn it on. Rob has helped me out in the past with two of my computers and they were fixed in a minimum of time. This time, as it was 4 pm on a Saturday, I called to see if he was available on Monday. Instead he walked me through the process of getting my computer to boot up (and very patiently, I might add). Within 5 minutes I was back on my computer. I can't say enough about Rob and/or his service. He truly is the best!

BitWise is the best.

Susan W.

Rob and Jason were great to work with! Rob was responsive and priced the work very reasonably. And Jason is a master at the computer! he was able to sort out my issues and resolve them sooner than i thought he could- with additional time to help clean up other issues on my computer. I highly recommend this company, telling my friends about them, and using them again if needed in the future!ThanksMike CattuzzoSenior Vice PresidentCassidy Turley

Rob and Jason were great to work with!

Mike Cattuzzo Senior Vice President, Cassidy Turley

Thank goodness for Rob and the crew at BitWise. I am on vacation and had a project deadline. My laptop cursor wouldn't budge, the thing kept locking up and I was soooo stressed. Rob fixed me up on the spot, my project is finished and now thankfully I can get back to having some fun. Thanks BitWise - you guys are the Best!

Thank goodness for Rob...

Jeanne L. Oxnard, CA

Last year, one of our computers needed repair so we took it to Bitwise Computer Repair. Rob was professional and friendly, and our computer was restored to “like new” quickly for a modest fee. Recently, we purchased a laptop and a desktop computer from Bitwise and we’re happy with them both. Last week, I downloaded a bad program that made my computer practically useless. Fortunately, all I needed to do was call Rob and he repaired the computer remotely—no moving the desk, disconnecting cords and driving it in; I just called in and it was ready the next day. The people at Bitwise understand that their customers have busy schedules and they do all they can to accommodate them. We have been completely satisfied with Rob and Bitwise every time we’ve worked with them and we recommend them for all electronic needs.